ABA: About half of 2011 law grads found law work

According to new American Bar Association information, only 55 percent of law school graduates in 2011 were able to obtain full-time, permanent employment in a law job within nine months of graduation.
For years, the ABA didn’t require schools to break down their information, allowing them to get by with simply reporting that a student was ...

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” That number could be even lower, as Cooley reported that 26.33 percent of its graduates’ employment status was unknown”

This is false. 37.54% employed in full-time jobs requiring bar passage nine months after graduation assumes everyone’s employment status that was unknown was not employed in a job requiring bar passage nine months after graduation. So the real number can only be higher, not lower.